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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 76(4), 2007, pp. 723-724
Copyright © 2007 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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TWO CASES OF RARELY RECOGNIZED INFECTION WITH ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII

MEHMET TANYUKSEL*, MUSTAFA ULUKANLIGIL, ZEYNEP GUCLU, ENGIN ARAZ, OZGUR KORU, AND WILLIAM A. PETRI, JR.
Division of Medical Parasitology, and Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Microbiology, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey; Departments of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, and Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

We report two cases (a 36-year-old woman and 2-year-old girl) infected with Entamoeba moshkovskii in Turkey. Entamoeba moshkovskii was identified and distinguished from the morphologically identical parasites E. histolytica and E. dispar by a nested polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the small subunit ribosomal DNA gene.

Received July 24, 2006. Accepted for publication January 15, 2007.

Acknowledgment: We thank Suzan Esin for laboratory assistance.

Financial support: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award grant #5 R03 TW006017-03.

* Address correspondence to Mehmet Tanyuksel, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, 06018 Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr

Authors’ addresses: Mehmet Tanyuksel, Zeynep Guclu, Engin Araz, and Ozgur Koru, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, 06018 Ankara, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-3411, E-mails: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr, zeynepguclu{at}hotmail.com, rearaz{at}gata.edu.tr, and okoru{at}gata.edu.tr. Mustafa Ulukanligil, Department of Microbiology, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-3411, E-mail: mulukan{at}harran.edu. William A. Petri Jr., Departments of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, and Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1340, Telephone: 434-924-562, E-mail: wap3g{at}virginia.edu.

Reprint requests: Mehmet Tanyuksel, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy Etlik 06018 Ankara, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-411, E-mail: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr.






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